Dear Child, I Am Your Mother and Your Friend
The word “friend” is defined as “one attached to another by affection or esteem.” When I was a little girl,…
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By Whitney Westbrook Some Things Are Better in the Morning
Some things are better in the morning. When we’re presumably more rested. When our minds are fresh and our energy…
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Dear Boy Mom, Don’t Underestimate Your Son
The first four months of my baby’s life were so tough. He was not a good sleeper. I spent those…
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By Lizzy Christian To the Mother Struggling To Get Her Child To Eat, Don’t Give Up
It’s hard to believe one year ago I was taking my daughter to food therapy twice a week. At almost…
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By Sandy Brannan We May Be Grandparents Now, But We’re Still Us
My husband and I took a selfie tonight. We don’t usually do that, but our grandchildren gave us T-shirts recently,…
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By Brooke Teel This One’s For the Dads We Couldn’t Do Life Without
This one is for the dads. The dads who change the 3 a.m. diapers and hand you the baby to…
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By Becka Asper Dear Child, When You Face Disappointment
Dear child, I have discovered my most important contribution as a parent. I get to teach you– daily–that people aren’t…
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I Don’t Want to Take Any of These Moments With You For Granted
When my son was two days old, I watched as he scrunched his eyebrows and opened his mouth wide, yawning…
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Autism is Heartbreak By One Thousand Paper Cuts
Every year, 1 out of 59 children is diagnosed with autism. And behind each child—behind the meltdowns and the therapies…
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Loss Carves a Tender Space in a Mother’s Heart
From the moment you see those two lines on a pregnancy test, something inside you shifts. Whether or not you…
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Dear Son, I Am So Proud of You
Dear Son, I blinked, and I don’t know where my baby bear’s gone off to. Those chubby little hands that…
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By Erin Artfitch Some of the Best Moms Are the Broken Ones
“I can't do anything right." It was 15 minutes past our usual bedtime, and I was laser-focused on nursing my…
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